EP3585647A1 - Vehicle headlight beam control - Google Patents
Vehicle headlight beam controlInfo
- Publication number
- EP3585647A1 EP3585647A1 EP18757081.7A EP18757081A EP3585647A1 EP 3585647 A1 EP3585647 A1 EP 3585647A1 EP 18757081 A EP18757081 A EP 18757081A EP 3585647 A1 EP3585647 A1 EP 3585647A1
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- Prior art keywords
- vehicle headlight
- steering direction
- control unit
- vehicle
- liquid crystal
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- B60Q1/04—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights
- B60Q1/06—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights adjustable, e.g. remotely-controlled from inside vehicle
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- B60Q1/04—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights
- B60Q1/14—Arrangement of optical signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor the devices being primarily intended to illuminate the way ahead or to illuminate other areas of way or environments the devices being headlights having dimming means
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- B60Q1/1423—Automatic dimming circuits, i.e. switching between high beam and low beam due to change of ambient light or light level in road traffic
- B60Q1/143—Automatic dimming circuits, i.e. switching between high beam and low beam due to change of ambient light or light level in road traffic combined with another condition, e.g. using vehicle recognition from camera images or activation of wipers
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- F21S41/645—Illuminating devices specially adapted for vehicle exteriors, e.g. headlamps characterised by a variable light distribution by acting on refractors, filters or transparent cover plates by changing their light transmissivity, e.g. by liquid crystal or electrochromic devices by electro-optic means, e.g. liquid crystal or electrochromic devices
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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- B60Q—ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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Definitions
- Some luxury vehicles have been known to incorporate mountings for headlights that turn with the vehicle steering.
- An example is the 1968 DS model of the French-made Citroen having, behind each glass cover lens, an inboard high-beam headlamp that swiveled by up to 80° as the driver steers, throwing the beam along the driver's intended path rather than uselessly across a curved road.
- Beam control devices that avoid moving parts for vehicle headlights or headlamps are known in the art, as for example in US PG-Pub 2009/0279316 and US PG-Pub 2003/0137849.
- Beam control optical devices can be adjusted independently for left and right headlights.
- the headlight adjustment can involve broadening and optionally elevation tilt angle, azimuth tilt angle, or intensity, along with any desired combination of these.
- a steering direction signal input indicative of a left or right steering direction is used to modulate a control signal of a liquid crystal beam broadening device to broaden horizontally the vehicle headlight beam when the steering direction signal input is indicative of a selected one of a left or a right steering direction and to maintain or reduce a horizontal spread of the vehicle headlight beam when said steering direction signal input is indicative of one of a left or a right steering direction opposite to the selected steering direction.
- Figure 1 is a schematic sectional view of a liquid crystal beam broadening cell causing broadening in one direction;
- Figure 2 is a plan view of a liquid crystal beam broadening cell having a substantially circular aperture
- Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of the headlight control circuit
- Figure 4 is a plan schematic view of a vehicle on a road showing the beams from headlights in which the right headlight beam is broadened using a liquid crystal beam control device to send light to illuminate a dark zone at the inside of a curve that would otherwise not be illuminated;
- Figure 5 illustrates a headlight intensity reflected from the pavement at 50 meters from the vehicle when no intensity adjustment is performed before broadening of the right headlight, a headlight intensity reflected from the pavement at 50 meters from the vehicle when no intensity adjustment is performed after broadening of the right headlight, and a headlight intensity reflected from the pavement at 50 meters from the vehicle when the intensity of the right headlight is increased and broadened;
- Figure 6A illustrates the illumination suitable when no on-coming car is present, namely the headlight closest to the opposed traffic lane has a broadened width with an angle au ; and [0014] Figure 6B illustrates the illumination suitable when an on-coming car is present, namely the headlight closest to the opposed traffic lane has a narrower width with an angle ⁇ _2.
- Liquid crystal (LC) beam control devices are known in the art.
- the devices include LC beam broadening devices and LC beam steering devices.
- the ability of an LC beam broadening device to control a beam is typically greater than for an LC beam steering device.
- a typical LC beam steering devices are able to direct a beam from 0 degrees to about 10 degrees, while a typical LC beam broadening device can add from 0 to about +/- 30 degrees. Steering by a few degrees can be useful for headlight altitude adjustment, however, for changing the azimuth of the beam for corner handling, it is typically ineffective.
- an LC device is schematically illustrated in cross- section, while Figure 2 illustrates an LC device having a circular aperture.
- a beam broadening LC device 14 can take a variety of forms, the device illustrated in Figure 1 broadens light in one direction only, and is to be arranged to broaden a beam essentially in the horizontal direction.
- the device 14 has cell wall substrates 22, typically made of glass, with strip electrodes 23 placed on one of the substrates. This is known as "in-plane" switching or control.
- the LC material 20 can be nematic LC having a ground state defined by one or more alignment layers 21 (alignment of LC can be planar or homeotropic).
- the device 14 can comprise two cells of LC material 20 with the alignment layers having an orthogonal director orientation. It will be appreciated that modulation of only one polarization can allow for modulation of one half of the light. More LC layers may be used to obtain further functionalities, such as broadening in perpendicular planes independently, etc. It has been found that when such orientation is at 45 degrees with respect to the direction of strip electrodes 23 that color separation can be reduced.
- the electrodes 23 can be transparent electrodes or opaque, the latter causing some loss of transmission.
- the LC material 20 When in the ground state, the LC material 20 is uniform and transparent.
- the electric field orients the LC material whose index of refraction for one linear polarization changes as a function of the orientation of the LC material.
- a variable amount of beam broadening can be achieved by controlling the electrode drive signal.
- the gap between electrodes 23 can be from about 0.02 mm to about 0.1 mm, while the thickness of the LC material layer 20 can be about 0.03 mm to about 0.1 mm.
- a similar beam broadening effect can be achieved by providing an opposed electrode arrangement instead of the in-plane arrangement illustrated in Figure 1.
- strip electrodes on one substrate like the top substrate shown in Figure 1
- a uniform transparent electrode can be provided on the bottom substrate.
- Such strip electrodes can be connected together with an electric field formed between them and the opposed uniform electrode. This will create a different electric field, however with a similar final effect of creating beam broadening.
- the device illustrated in Figure 1 would typically comprise a large number of closely spaced electrodes, as illustrated in Figure 2.
- the device 14 illustrated in Figure 2 has a circular aperture. It will be appreciated that the aperture can be arranged to have a geometry that matches the headlight beam's profile. It will also be appreciated that the beam broadening device can be integrated with a beam forming reflector rather than being arranged in the output beam path, and that non-LC beam broadening devices can also be used within the context of the present application.
- FIG 3 is a block diagram of a headlight control system comprising right and left headlight sources 12r and 121 respectively, a control unit 30, and steering angle sensor 32.
- the control unit 30 can provide control signals to drivers 34 that can adjust an intensity of the sources 12.
- the control unit 30 provides control signals to drivers 36 that provide control signals to beam control devices 14.
- FIG. 4 there is illustrated a vehicle 10 having headlights 121 and 12r projecting beams 161 and 16r onto a road surface 20 in which the vehicle drives on the right side of the road.
- the beams 16 have a given divergence and orientation to provide an illumination of the road surface.
- the headlights can have a light source and optics for projecting a narrow beam of light.
- the LC beam diffusing devices 14 can be placed in the optical path of the headlight. When the LC devices 14 are controlled to be transparent, the original beam is projected, while when the LC device is controlled to provide beam divergence, the beam is broadened.
- the beams 161 and 16r can be narrower than would be normally provided for a vehicle headlight, and the normal beam to illuminate the roadway can be achieved by using a first level of beam broadening from devices 14.
- control unit 30 can adjust the control signals provided to the drivers 36, and preferably both drivers 34 and 36.
- the left beam 151 can be reduced in intensity or left to have its original intensity using its driver 341 and given no broadening using its device 141 as controlled by its driver 361.
- its device 141 can be controlled to reduce or remove broadening such that beam 151 is narrower than normal.
- beam 15r can be broadened by signaling driver 36r, and it can be made brighter by signaling driver 34r. The result is improved lighting of the curve in the road on the right side. This has the effect of illuminating a portion of the road ahead that would otherwise have been outside of the illumination of the headlights.
- the steering angle sensor 32 can be a sensor connected to the vehicle steering, for example, it can be a reading from the vehicle's on-board computer, or from an accelerometer. In the case of an accelerometer, the accelerometer can be integrated into a local electronic controller that provides the driver circuit 34/36 for each device 14.
- the steering angle sensor 32 can comprise alternatively or additionally one or more of an incline sensor, a sensor for the speed of the vehicle, a road bend sensor, a radial force sensor, and a GPS sensor system.
- the road illumination is schematically illustrated in Figure 5.
- the intensity of the reflected light from the road surface at a nominal distance of 50 meters is schematically shown for three different beam control states.
- a first state the headlights 121 and 12r are directed to illuminate in a regular straight-ahead beam shape, and the beams from the two headlights 12 combine to form the intensity pattern.
- the second state the right headlight 12r has its beam broadened without any change in beam intensity. The result causes the right side of the road straight ahead to be less illuminated since the right headlight beam is broadened, while the right side of the curved road is given illumination.
- the illumination of the right curved road is balanced and corrected.
- the first beam pattern involves a first level of broadening of a narrower headlight beam, and such broadening is removed for the outside headlight, then the beam pattern can be moved to the inside of the turn.
- LC layer devices may enable the control of light beam in both horizontal and vertical planes. This may be used to optimize the driving or object detection depending upon the speed of the car movement.
- the dynamic control of light broadening angle of the car may be used to optimize the driving conditions by avoiding blinding the driver of the car moving in the opposite direction on the same street as illustrated in Figures 6A and 6B.
- the light angle and intensity of a single car may be chosen to be in the "normal” or “single” mode (an) when there is no car moving in the opposite direction ( Figure 6A).
- Detection of the on- coming vehicle is performed by a camera or light sensor 33 whose signal is processed by the control unit 30 to broaden the headlight beam (left side and/or right) when no oncoming vehicle is detected and to reduce broadening (or not to add any broadening at all) when an on-coming vehicle is detected (see Figure 3).
- the left headlight's broadening angle may be reduced (0,1.2) when the car B is detected ( Figure 6B).
- the intensity of that headlight may be consequently reduced too (to maintain optimal level of illumination of the street).
- the same should be preferably done by the car B. This will avoid car drivers of cameras (for security or assisted driving) to become blind.
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